Tag Archives: East Belfast

LetsGetAlongerism Interupted

Posted on April 16, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

We live in a decade which Conflict Resolutionists and LetsGetAlongerists aided and abetted by Historians have mapped out for us. It is The Decade of Centenaries, a series of events to show how much nationalists and unionists have in common … Continue reading →

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Alliance Party: Reasons To Be Cheerful?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Absolutely none. In short term or long term. None. And I can live with that. With their usual sense of entitlement….being GODs Special People…they anticipated some sympathy in respect of their “principled” stand on Flegs. But I think they hopelessly … Continue reading →

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Unionists: Reasons To Be Cheerful?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Short term….yes. Nigel Lutton did all he could do in Mid Ulster. Unionist “unity”  worked. But probably at the price of boxing itself into a ghetto…and we can all treat any talk of unionist outreach as risible. Indeed it was … Continue reading →

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Irish News: David Ford Squeaks Out!

Posted on January 28, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

My boycott of newspapers is now eight weeks old. I have not of course read the story myself but I understand from Slugger O’Toole that there is an interview with David Ford, Leader of the Alliance Party in today’s Irish … Continue reading →

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MLA….MIA

Posted on January 18, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

About I week ago I started to notice that I had not seen much of David Ford, the Alliance Leader over the past few weeks. He turned up again on Monday at Stormont. and indeed performed credibly in the zoo … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Mr James FitzjamesHorse

Posted on January 16, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

A post from Mr James FitzjamesHorse, related to Mrs FJH and myself…thru being born. Well Alex Maskey has got a bit tongue tied on live tv, sadly not for the first time. I immediately recall the situation of the “Columbia … Continue reading →

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The Night They Drove Old Ulster Down

Posted on January 8, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I have been reading a lot about the old Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu recently. Executed….actually pretty much murdered along with his wife after a show trial on Christmas Day 1989….those images of the old despots on the balcony of the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Status (1908)

Posted on March 27, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Is Social Media really so new? Take this postcard sent for a half penny from the (British) Army Camp at the Curragh in County Kildare to Miss J Walls in East Belfast. Sent on 10th May 1908.  An early pioneer … Continue reading →

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Titanic Murals

Posted on March 1, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A visitor to the site has asked about the Titanic. These are photographs taken on the Newtownards Road (from open top tourist bus) in East Belfast. Street Art (often political) is one of the alleged tourist attractions of Belfast.

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Bangor And Back For A “Bob” 1962

Posted on February 19, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The headline comes from a much quoted advertising poster which advertised day trips by rain to the seaside town of Bangor which is 12 miles east from Belfast. …on the southern shore of Belfast Lough. Well it was much quoted … Continue reading →

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